01/09/2022

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 01/09/2022
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Article English
Title: Why Everyone's Obsessed With ChatGPT, a Mind-Blowing AI Chatbot
Link: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/why-everyones-obsessed-with-chatgpt-a-mind-blowing-ai-chatbot/
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶stilted /stil-tid/
▶omniscient /om-nish-uhnt/
▶authoritative /uh-thawr-i-tey-tiv/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌mind-blowing (adjective) - extremely exciting or surprising

Example: The special effects in this movie are pretty mind-blowing.

📌stilted (adjective) - (of a person's behavior or way of speaking or writing) too formal and not smooth or natural

Example: The dialogue sounded stilted and unnatural, perhaps because of the translation from the original Russian.

📌omniscient (adjective) - having or seeming to have unlimited knowledge

Example: Christians believe that God is omniscient.

📌authoritative (adjective) - showing that you are confident, in control, and expect to be respected and obeyed

Example: She addressed the group with an authoritative voice.

📌downright (adjective before noun, adverb) - (especially of something bad) extremely or very great

Example: The working conditions are unhealthy, if not downright (= and probably extremely) dangerous.

📌for-profit (adjective) - used to describe an organization or service that exists to make a profit

Example: The law here allows hospitals to be operated on a for-profit basis.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: Most of my weekend for the real estate lecture.
✔Better say: Most of my weekend was spent attending/studying the lecture about real estate.

✖You said: I need to some preparation for assisting.
✔Better say: I need to prepare for assisting / I need to make some preparations for assisting.
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🔴 Homework:
Please take note of what you learned in this lesson and apply it in your future conversations.
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📝 NEXT LESSON:
Course: Debate English
Book: Express Yourself 1
Title/Page: Issue 03 - Health to Comprehension #3 (page 33)